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[UK] M. Sharp in Oz (Sydney) Feb. n.p.: Phil did this king hambone on the kitchen table and ran round the house in the raw ripping the gear off all the birds.
at hambone, v.2
[UK] Oz 4 25: Just off for a love loon with Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.
at loon (about/off), v.
[UK] Oz 7 26/2: I’m just looning off to Mr Fish to pick up my caftan. Then I’m looning off to pick up my bell from Asprey.
at loon (about/off), v.
[UK] Oz 5 [poster format] n.p.: This bizarre cult of grey, short-haired nine-to-fivers is sweeping the country [...] In fact most people are Alfs these days.
at alf, n.
[UK] Oz 2 13/1: She will sell heroin at ¾d. a jack or £1 a grain.
at jack (and jill), n.
[UK] Oz 3 13: Ill-written, unutterably boring, lying, arse-licking speeches.
at arse-licking (adj.) under arse-lick, v.
[UK] Oz 3 6/3: ‘Get into a responsibility bag,’ he urged some 400 friends.
at bag, n.2
[UK] letter in Oz 4 3/4: I am not one to balls ache about what other people do, let alone print.
at balls-ache (v.) under balls, n.
[UK] Oz 4 25: Just been to a very beautiful inter-planetary be-in on Venus.
at be-in, n.
[UK] Oz 7 23/3: The Big ‘O’ – the only measure of sexual success American men (and women) will accept.
at big O, n.
[UK] Oz 1 8/1: Of course it doesn’t stop us enjoying a bit on the side.
at bit on the side (n.) under bit, n.1
[UK] Oz 2 13/2: Pushers of pills are [...] frequently blocking themselves before they try to block anyone else.
at block, v.4
[UK] Oz 2 13/2: Blues (drinamil) sell at 1/3d. each.
at blues, n.2
[UK] Oz 7 28/2: Ideally, the drop-out society shouldn’t have to think about such bring-down matters [as conventional society].
at bringdown, n.
[UK] Oz 4 25: They were very brought down by the war scenes here.
at brought down, adj.
[UK] Oz 1 11/1: Private Eye still reeks of this old guard bumhole element.
at bumhole, adj.
[UK] Oz 1 12/1: Ingrams loathed Son of Bumhole.
at bumhole, n.
[UK] Oz 1 16/3: ‘Camp’ – the glorification of the inability to discriminate.
at camp, n.2
[UK] Oz 3 9/2: The merchants put up chicken posters saying, ‘For your own safety, get off the street.’.
at chicken, n.
[UK] Oz 3 9/2: The hippies came and ate and have been chowing down, free, every night since.
at chow down, v.
[UK] Oz 2 13/4: Heroin (£1 to £3 per grain) coke, meths (5/- an ampoule).
at coke, n.1
[UK] Oz 2 13/2: Although technically ‘mild stimulants’ when taken in overdoses the comedown [i.e. from drinamyl] is unpleasant.
at come-down, n.
[UK] Oz 3 3/1: Here’s my entry for when you come to your sense and run a comp. for us.
at comp, n.
[UK] Oz 7 22/2: The numbers of heavens are infinite for each man. The crows [i.e. priests] will die.
at crow, n.2
[UK] A. Burgess ‘Rosetalk’ in Oz 6 22: dustbowl: A pipe used for smoking marijuana.
at dust, n.
[UK] Oz 3 2/4: I too am tired of dykey salesladies.
at dykey, adj.
[UK] Oz 5 n.p.: This bizarre cult of grey, short-haired nine-to-fivers is sweeping the country.
at nine-to-fiver, n.
[UK] Oz 2 18/3: Rubirosa was a fizzle in bed Latin beauty says.
at fizzle, n.2
[UK] Oz 7 28/2: Long-haired ‘freaks’ and minimally dressed ‘teenyboppers’.
at freak, n.1
[UK] in Oz 7 23/3: I’d rather be a whore than a freebie.
at freebie, n.
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